Jiaqi Li
（黎家齐）
jeekwai@foxmail.com
Symposium presentation: Printed Trompe L’Oeil: Urban Visual Tricks 2025
研讨会分享：印刷视错觉图像：城市空间的视觉戏法 2025
Symposium detail: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/scm/imagine/
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
"Imagining Reality" Symposium
March 7, 2025
Mr. LI Jiaqi presented a keynote lecture "Printed Trompe L'Oeil: Urban Visual Tricks"
(Audio Documentation | Hong Kong, March 2025)
Trompe l’oeil, French for “eye-deceiver,” refers to an art historical tradition in painting and murals designed to fool the eye into perceiving something as real. Today, printed trompe l’oeil has shifted away from its art-centered origins to become a practical tool in urban landscapes, accessible to ordinary people (e.g., printed forest images on construction site fences).
The presentation will include the following sections:
1. Case Studies. I will share several representative examples from a collection of 200 digital cases, such as:
a) Printed images of forests pasted on construction site fences;
b) Projected figures of virtual guides at airports;
c) Printed food images placed in Tupperware containers.
This section aims to define the term “printed trompe l’oeil” and explore questions about image representation and illusion in urban life.
2. Inspiration from Artistic Tradition. By comparing modern printed trompe l’oeil with the traditional painting technique, this section will examine the evolution of this visual trick. I will explore the balance between virtuality and reality, referencing visual theories (e.g., Baudrillard) to argue that printed trompe l’oeil has diverged from traditional art. In practical applications, this technique functions as a tool for concealment, embellishment, and decoration in urban spaces, offering a quick and cost-effective way to create visual completeness. It reflects a subjective, idealistic approach in today’s image-saturated world, serving practical psychological needs. Drawing on several researchers’ arguments, I will argue that people are not truly deceived by printed trompe l’oeil; rather, they engage with it in a realistic manner.
3. Trompe L’Oeil as a Method in Contemporary Art. Numerous contemporary artists incorporate trompe l’oeil techniques into installations, hotography, media art, and performance. By analyzing their work, I will explore the connections between visual theory and artistic practice.
香港城市大学 创意媒体学院
"Imagining Reality" 学术研讨会
2025年3月7日
黎家齐发表学术分享《印刷视错觉图像：城市空间的视觉戏法》
(分享录音 | 2025年3月于香港 )
"Trompe l’oeil"（视错觉艺术）源自法语，意为"欺骗视觉"，指通过绘画或壁画制造逼真幻象的艺术传统。如今，这种技术以印刷图像的形式渗透进城市空间，从高雅艺术转变为大众触手可及的视觉工具（如工地围挡上的森林贴图）。
本次分享包含以下三部分：
1. 典型案例分析
来自生活中的200个印刷视错觉图像案例精选，例如：a) 建筑围挡上的印刷自然景观；b) 机场投影的虚拟服务人员形象；c) 食品容器内印刷的逼真食材图案。本环节将界定"印刷视错觉图像"的范畴，并探讨其在城市视觉系统中制造的认知博弈。
2. 从艺术传统到城市应用
通过对比古典错视画与现代印刷技术，揭示视觉欺骗手法的功能演变。借助鲍德里亚等视觉理论，论证其如何演变为兼具遮蔽缺陷、美化环境、空间装饰三重功能的城市工具。这种低成本、高效率的视觉修补策略，实质是图像泛滥时代对"完美表象"的集体执念。研究显示，公众并非真正受骗，而是主动参与这场心照不宣的视觉游戏。
3. 当代艺术中的视错觉实践
分析新媒体装置、摄影、行为等艺术形式中对视错觉技法的创造性转化，探索视觉理论与艺术创新的互动关系。
Video essay: Effective Ineffectiveness: Facts About Space Collage 2020
影像论文： 生效的不生效：空间拼贴的真相 2020
Space Collage is a phenomenon of those 2D life-size pictures installed in 3D space. The video explores its applications in several aspects. And by comparing this phenomena and artworks made in this way, the video for the first time summarizes and classifies a technique that its academic value has been ignored.
空间拼贴指的是安装在三维空间中的、真实大小的二维图片。本视频从多角度分析该现象的应用。且通过关联相关的艺术作品，该视频首次总结和归类了这种被忽略了一定学术价值的技术。
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